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Re: USAGE: More Japanese

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, July 6, 2003, 0:45
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:41:23PM -0700, Garth Wallace wrote:
> Maybe it's just the recording? Sometimes phonemes are harder to identify > when sung.
Yeah, that's what I figure, but if there's an /m/ hiding in there it's hiding really darn well. :)
>These are the ones I know about; am I missing any? > > >1. /hu/ is pronounced [fu] > > Actually, [p\u].
Thanks.
> >2. /si/ is pronounced [Si] (/sj/ is [S]) > > I'd say there is no /si/, just /sa/ /su/ /se/ /so/ and /Sa/ /Si/ /Su/ > /So/. At least in native words. Maybe you could say the /s/-/S/ > distinction is neutralized before /i/.
Well, that's what I meant. I think of it as a single phoneme /s/, possibly palatalized before /a/,/o/, or /u/, and followed by any of the five vowels, with these phonetic realizations: /sa/ [sa] /sja/ [Sa] /se/ [se] /si/ [Si] /so/ [so] /sjo/ [So] /su/ [su] /sju/ [Su] Similarly for /ti/ -> [tSi], /tja/ -> [tSa], etc. -Mark

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